. >> right, exactly, and they're a little farther along than massachusetts was at this point. >> woodruff: mary agnes, stay with us. >> ifill: this brings us to another chapter in our series featuring reactions to the affordable care act, as more people become aware of the details. yesterday we aired the story of a washington, d.c. lawyer who was angry that her current insurance policy had been cancelled. tonight we hear from a colorado woman who was diagnosed with cancer just before her husband lost his job and his health care plan. here's some of what she told us: >> i am martha monsson. i'm 59 years old. i was diagnosed when i was 54, january of 2008, with multiple myeloma, which is a bone marrow cancer. the treatments for that mainly are chemotherapy, both oral and what the chemois for essentially, is reduce the number of cancer cells. this treatment is life saving. i would have died probably in february 2008 without it. when i was diagnosed, my husband was the county attorney in morgan county, and we had insurance through them. his job was eliminated, so since then he has been doing